Description
Title: O Avalanche
Artist: Fionn Regan
Label: Fionn Regan Music
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5053760137757
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 2025-12-05
Number of Discs: 1
Fionn Regan”s 2024 album O Avalanche, available on vinyl for the first time. “”I float sometimes when you”re around,”” sings Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan on “”Islands””, setting the weightlessly romantic tenor for his seventh album. Written in Spain, O Avalanche is an album of levitating intimacies, abstract and intuitive yet infused with a tangible sense of the elevating ties between environment and emotion. Between it”s sun-dappled backdrops and lambent arrangements, the result is a set of sublime songs and something more: it”s a record to float with, immersive, uplifting and transporting. His first since 2019”s beautiful Cala, it”s also an album that is, in Fionn”s words, “”very much on a level”” – shimmering with poetic mystery and bolstered by a sustained feel for atmosphere and shape. As Fionn explains, “”I see it sort of like a film that starts cinematically and develops in abstract ways. It moves in different sequences, backwards and forwards. And if you”re thinking about it in a visual way, there”s a quality about it where it”s always magic hour.”” “”I feel like the album has got quite a lot of bottled-summer energy running through it,”” says Fionn. It took him two or three albums” worth of material to find the songs that felt simpatico – the ones that “”started to hang out together and fought their way to becoming the album””. Capturing the mood, Fionn wrote the record while staying in Majorca, a place he describes as his “”true north””: “”There”s a sense of an artistic energy there, where you step back a little from the main drag of bigger cities. You”re sat there in the mountains looking towards the cities, rather than the other way. There”s a kind of focus, a feeling that you”re tuned in to something.”” Co-produced with Ian Grimble, O Avalanche steers Regan”s off-the-main-drag feel for climate and landscape towards another creative peak, forging a record to lose yourself in. “”It”s like you”re looking into this world where there”s a depth of field, it”s summer, and you”re floating into and out of it,”” he says of the album. “”The songs can come together in the moment, so it”s not a conscious thing, but when I listen to the record it feels like there”s an eternal optimism about it – a kind of upward-feeling energy.”” With the gentlest of touches, O Avalanche will sweep you off your feet.
Tracks:
1.1 Islands
1.2 Teix Mountains
1.3 O Avalanche (Featuring Anna Friel)
1.4 Blood Is Thicker Than Wine
1.5 Anja?I
1.6 Anja?Ii
1.7 Farewell
1.8 Into the Light of the Sun
1.9 Headphones
1.10 Swimming the Lakes / Flowers and Stones
1.11 Deia Song / Llucalcari
